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Essay
Did Hungarian Theatre Kids Just Change the World?
by Todd London
11 May 2026
Video
in:vzbl Festival—A Festival Dedicated to Rural Communities
Performance Videos and Artist Talks from the 2025 Festival in Timișoara, Romania
Thursday 5 March to Tuesday 10 March 2026
Timișoara, Romania
Podcast
Making Co-leadership Into Allyship
by Martin Boross, Tara Khozein
10 February 2026
Video
Friday 1 December 2017
Budapest, Hungary

Trafó House of Contemporary Arts in Budapest, Hungary presented The Context and Environment of Hungarian Theatre-Making— a panel discussion at dunaPart – Platform of Hungarian Performing Arts livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Friday 1 December 2017 at 10:30 CET (Berlin, UTC +1) / 4:30 a.m. EST (New York, UTC -5) / 9:30 a.m. GMT (London, UTC +0) / 11:30 EET (Bucharest, UTC +2) / 17:30 SGT (Singapore, UTC +8) / 8:30 p.m. AEDT (Sydney, UTC +11). In Twitter, follow @HowlRound for updates, and use #howlround.

Video
Thursday 30 November 2017
Budapest, Hungary

Trafó House of Contemporary Arts in Budapest, Hungary presented Theatre and Power— a panel discussion at dunaPart – Platform of Hungarian Performing Arts livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Thursday 30 November 2017 at 10:00 CET (Berlin, UTC +1) / 4:00 a.m. EST (New York, UTC -5) / 9:00 a.m. GMT (London, UTC +0) / 11:00 EET (Bucharest, UTC +2) / 17:00 SGT (Singapore, UTC +8) / 8:00 p.m. AEDT (Sydney, UTC +11). In Twitter, follow @HowlRound for updates, and use #howlround.

Essay
14 July 2017

The World Theatre Map beta project has engaged its first cohort of twenty-eight World Theatre Map Ambassadors from twenty-four countries to direct community organizing, outreach, and feedback gathering.

Essay
8 April 2017

Finally, we would like to present the sole representatives of community theatre in Hungary: Koma Base, who took up a very important role in the life of a community in the outskirts of Budapest. / Végül a Koma Bázist szeretnénk bemutatni, a közösségi színház egyetlen képviselőit ma Magyarországon, akik nagyon fontos szerepet vállaltak magukra egy budapesti, külvárosi közöség életében.

Essay

Researching Art / Cselekvő kíváncsiság. Kutató művészet

7 April 2017

Káva Drama/Theater in Education Association is one of the most important groups on the scene in Budapest in taking responsibility for the next generation. / A Káva Műhely csapata minden alkalommal lenyűgöz, amikor projektjeink kereszteződnek. Ők képezik az egyik legfontosabb csoportot a szakmán belül, akik felelősséget vállalnak a következő generációért.

Essay
6 April 2017

We would like to dedicate the fourth article of the series to dance. Viktor Szeri, an up-and-coming dancer from Budapest, leads us into its secrets. / A sorozat negyedik posztját a táncnak dedikáljuk. Szeri Viktor, egy fiatal és feltörekvő budapesti táncos, bevezet annak titkaiba.

Essay
5 April 2017

The founders of dollardaddy's both come from the University of Kaposvár, a theatre school that is in a small city in the south of Hungary. In their article they present to us their path from the countryside to the very heart of the capital. / A Dollár Papa Gyermekei alapító tagjai a kaposvári színművészeti egyetemről jöttek, egy Magyarország déli részén fekvő kisvárosból. Írásukban leírják a vidékről a főváros szívébe vezető útjukat.

Essay
4 April 2017

Last year, Kristóf Kelemen and his creative team (Angéla Eke, Alexandra Horváth, Márk Horváth, Tamás Rétfalvi, Judit Tarr) opened a performance at Trafó House of Contemporary Arts which deals with the struggles of performing arts education through their personal experiences. We asked Kristóf to give us an insight and present the system of the University of Theater and Film Arts, Budapest. / A Trafó tavalyi évadában, Kelemen Kristóf és alkotótársai (Eke Angéla, Horváth Alexandra, Horváth Márk, Rétfalvi Tamás és Tarr Judit) bemutattak egy előadást, amely az előadóművészeti oktatás nehézségeit tárgyalja, személyes tapasztalataikon keresztül. Felkértük Kristófot, hogy mutassa be a budapesti Színház- és Filmművészeti Egyetem működési rendszerét.

Essay

the Independents from Budapest / A periféria mint központ. Budapesti függetlenek

3 April 2017

In the first post of the series, Budapest-based curator and theatre critic Anikó Varga gives us an overview of the young independent theatre field from the capital. / A sorozat első posztjában Varga Anikó, a Budapesten élő kurátor és színházi kritikus, a fővárosi, független, fiatal szcénát mutatja be.

Video
Saturday 8 October 2016

The 21st edition of Konfrontacje Festival in Lublin, Poland presented a performance of Parental Ctrl by Groundfloor Group (Romania) livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Saturday 8 October at 18:00 CEST (Berlin) / 19:00 EEST (Bucharest) / 5 p.m. BST (London) / 16:00 UTC / 12 p.m. EDT (New York) / 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco). Follow @HowlRoundTV and @konfrontacje on Twitter for updates. 

Video
Thursday 5 November 2015
Budapest, Hungary

IETM—international network for contemporary performing arts—presented a Debate on Arts & Democracy from the opening plenary session of IETMBudapest livestreamed on the global, commons based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 5 November at 1 a.m.-3 a.m. PST (Los Angeles) / 4 a.m.-6 a.m. EST (New York) / 9 a.m.-11 a.m. GMT (London) / 10 a.m.-12 p.m. CET (Budapest) / 14:30-16:30 IST (New Delhi) / 17:00-19:00 SGT (Singapore) / 20:00-22:00 AEDT (Sydney). In Twitter, use #IETMBudapest to comment and participate in the conversation.

Essay

Independence at a Cost

18 June 2015

Tamás Jászay explores independent theatre in Hungary and provides historical context about the state of the art form. 

Essay

dunaPart Budapest

30 May 2015

Iulia Popovici examines the state of independent work in Hungary during dunaPart, an organized showcase of mostly theatre and dance.

A group of people stand on a balcony surrounded by protest signs.
Essay
11 May 2026

On 12 April 2026, Hungarians voted by overwhelming majority to end authoritarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s reign. Todd London celebrates the theatre kids who helped make that happen and offers ten things we can learn from the 2020 protest movement at the University of Theater and Film Arts (SZFE).

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Video

Performance Videos and Artist Talks from the 2025 Festival in Timișoara, Romania

Thursday 5 March to Tuesday 10 March 2026
Timișoara, Romania

A limited online screening of six performance videos and artist talks from the 2025 in:vzbl Festival hosted in Timișoara, Romania. The festival is dedicated to rural communities, presenting shows from Romania, Hungary, Serbia, and Poland. 

A promotional graphic for Bridge Between Realities.
Podcast
10 February 2026

How do we actually share leadership and not use co-leadership as a metaphor or aspiration? In the final episode, Tara and Martin reflect on the Bridge Between Realities project and break down what they learned about collaboration, leadership, and power.

A group of actors stand in a cluster onstage.
Series

Roma Self-Representation

The aim of the festival and this series is to present and preserve the values of the theatre and theatrical heroes of the largest ethnic minority in Europe, highlighting the challenges the members of this minority face because of segregative and discriminatory practices—which offend minority rights. 

Poster for the Roma Heroes Festival.
Video

Presented by the Independent Theater Hungary

Wednesday 20 March - Wednesday 27 March 2024

Independent Theater Hungary presents the Roma Heroes International Theater Festival, Sixth Edition, livestreaming on the commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Wednesday 20 March to Wednesday 27 March 2024 at 11 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles, UTC -7) / 1 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 2 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 18:00 GMT (London, UTC +1) / 19:00 CET (Budapest, UTC +1) / 20:00 EET (Bucharest, UTC +2).

PUHA Podcast Teaser.
Series

Performative Unity in the Hungarian Arts

A dazzling performance art scene is being born in Hungary, which, though quite small, boasts artists from all walks of life. Puha means “soft” in Hungarian, and PUHA stands for Performative Unity in the Hungarian Arts. It is an ambitious project by theatremaker and performer Zsófia Kozma and choreographer-performer Bíborka Béres that brings makers and creators of the Hungarian performance art scene together for discussions. From dancer to set designer, jazz musician to game designer, we talk with all sorts of people about thoughts, approaches, challenges, and ideas in their work. They sit down to explore topics like climate change, gender, queerness, improvisation, and public space in order to replace division and competition by fostering unity and dialogue in the field.

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Series

Roma Theatre Retrospective 2021

Celebrating Four Years of Contemporary, International Romani Theatre

Independent Theater Hungary in partnership with HowlRound Theatre Commons presented the Roma Theatre Retrospective 2021 which included forty livestreams of twenty shows and twenty interviews from Romani artists in ten countries who were featured during four editions of the Roma Heroes International Theater Festival, Budapest. Livestreamed on the commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network Tuesday 19 October to Friday 10 December 2021.

poster for the Roma Theatre Retrospective 2020.
Series

Roma Theatre Retrospective 2020

Featuring Roma artists from the Roma Heroes Theater Festival, Hungary

The Roma theater has more than a century long past with active professional theatre groups in many European countries, but unfortunately, they are still hardly known.

Series

An Other Budapest

This series examines the state of community theatre in Hungary.

Two people holding each other in acrobatic dance.
Series

Independent Theatre in Hungary and the Czech Republic

Exploring the state of independent theatre in Hungary and the Czech Republic.

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